Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of traffic before the posting stopped. (NPR declined an interview request but shared the memo and other information). While NPR’s main account had 8.7 million followers and the politics account had just under three million, “the platform’s algorithm updates made it increasingly challenging to reach active users; you often saw a near-immediate drop-off in engagement after tweeting and users rarely left the platform,” the memo says.
Hopefully that hurts the social media platforms more than they want to admit.
It does, social media is very headline driven. I’m not surprised traffic wasn’t affected much
To the surprise of no one.
Danielle Nett, an editor with NPR’s engagement team, writes in the staff memo that spending less time on Twitter has helped with staff burnout. “That’s both due to the lower manual lift — and because the audience on Threads is seemingly more welcoming to publishers than on platforms like Twitter and Reddit, where snark and contrarianism reign,” Nett writes.
Snark and contrarianism, on reddit?! I’m shocked!
Plenty of snark and contrarianism on Threads don’t know what dafuq they are talking about, sounds like nonesense.
I think everyone is seeing that the worth of social media isn’t worth what you need to pay now
Is fediverse social media? I never considered reddit or this social media. More like a forum
It’s social media in the technical definition - it’s a place to view media, both entertainment and news, with commentary, groups, the ability to follow someone, etc. Which makes it social.
But yeah, it’s not quite like Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn. A little bit like Twitter though.
I think you are going to start seeing an ad exodus from social, that’s my prediction. Connected TV ad spend is going to be what catches all the ad dollars in 2024, especially if Netflix and Amazon start sliding towards exposing their viewers to more ads. Social media is going to start its long decline as a result, turning into pay to play as they all try to survive a world with declining ad revenues.
Being insufferable is a great way to become redundant. Doesn’t matter if you’re a platform or a person, rich or poor. Anything can be more trouble than it’s worth. And if you are given the chance to stop and think about it, it’s probably been true for a while already.